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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

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Alex Loin Toronto

'Hong Kong is over-banked. It has more banks than public toilets.'

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Chairman of newly listed China Merchants Bank, Qin Xiao, who presumably is not opening more branches in the city.

'It's hard to think, 'Who am I?' with my own brain, so I tried translating myself to fish.'

Japanese engineer-turned-artist Nobumichi Tosa, in Hong Kong to open a multimedia exhibition, Nonsense Machines: Naki, featuring 18 fish-themed artworks.

'Turning Dream of the Red Chamber into a lewd game besmirches a treasure of Chinese literature and is a desecration of Chinese culture.'

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An irate Sohu.com surfer from the mainland, denouncing a Japanese computer game titled Slaves of the Red Mansion - a pun on the Chinese literary classic - in which scantily clad young girls, locked in chains, are sold into sexual slavery.

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